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From: Jack kelly (jackavon_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 06:50:53 -0700

I use Yahoo.com as my home page but recently something
has got into my PC (Windows XP) which is hijacking the
home page and substituting a different one. The new home
page has a title http//213.159.117.134.index.php and
despite me changing it back to yahoo.com it keeps
reverting to this page. It then directs me into a page
which advertises a product (E-Shredder) to get rid of
Spyware. It's obviously a scam because they look for your
credit card details to purchase this. Obviously I am not
going to purchase it. I have Adware Lavasoft and
Spyhunter on my PC which should be eliminating garbage
like this but they seem unable to do so.

Any ideas on how I can get rid of this??

Thanks

Jack

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